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Standard systems for romanizing Belarusian include: . BGN/PCGN romanization of Belarusian, 1979 (United States Board on Geographic Names and Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use), which is the US and Great Britain prevailing system for romanising of geographical information
Russian. ISO 639-3. orv. Glottolog. oldr1238. Old East Slavic (traditionally also Old Russian) [a] was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, [4] until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. [5] Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn ...
The Union State of Russia and Belarus on the globe, with Russian-occupied territories in light green [a] Headquarters. 8/5 Staraya Square, Entrance 3, 103132 Moscow, Russia [3] Largest city. Moscow. 55°45′N 37°37′E. / 55.750°N 37.617°E / 55.750; 37.617. Official languages.
Belarusian is an Eastern Slavonic language spoken mainly in Belarus, and also in Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, the USA and Israel. According to a study carried out by the Belarusian government in 2009, 2.8 million (29.4%) out a population of 9.67 million could write, speak and read Belarusian in Belarus, and 5 ...
The East Slavic languages constitute one of three regional subgroups of the Slavic languages, distinct from the West and South Slavic languages. East Slavic languages are currently spoken natively throughout Eastern Europe, and eastwards to Siberia and the Russian Far East. [1] In part due to the large historical influence of the Russian Empire ...
The Russian Wikipedia ( Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized : Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of April 2024, it has 1,973,944 articles. It was started on 11 May 2001. [1] In October 2015, it became the sixth-largest Wikipedia by the number of articles. It has the sixth-largest number of ...
Akanye or akanje [1] ( Belarusian: аканне, Russian: а́канье, Russian pronunciation: [ˈakənʲjɪ] ), literally " a -ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes /o/ or /e/ are realized as more or less close to [ a]. It is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye ...
